July was a really exciting month on the Node, as we launched our brand new look and celebrated our 5th anniversary! Here are some of the highlights: Happy birthday to the Node: The Node’s birthday gift to itself was a brand new look and logo. Check out our first post of the month for[…]

Here are some of the highlights of the last month! Research: Steve told the tale of how it became an established fact that human sex ratio at conception is male biased… a cautionary tale on the conception of scientific ‘facts’. Kate wrote about her lab’s new paper in Neuron, examining how the micro circuitry of[…]

May was one of the busiest months in the history of the Node, with over 40 new posts! Here are some of the highlights: Research: – Briana discussed how she and her colleagues generated human lung organoids in vitro, work published in eLife. – How did dinosaur snouts evolve into beaks? Arhat Abzhanov discussed his recent paper in Evolution,[…]

April has been a busy month on the Node! Here are some of the highlights: Question of the Month- CRISPR technology: This month a group in China reported genome editing in human embryos. What are the technical and ethical issues of using CRISPR? Share your thoughts here! BSDB meeting: April saw the joint Spring[…]

Here are some of the highlights on the Node in the last month: Discussion: – Following your feedback to our survey, this month we launched a new feature to encourage more discussion on the Node- Question of the Month! Every month you can expect a new question on an interesting or controversial topic, and[…]

Our jobs page was again very busy this month, so make sure to check it out! Here are some of the other highlights: Research: – Manuel wrote about his Development paper, where he examines how the eyes of the cavefish P. andruzii develop, and what that tells us about the evolution of eye loss in[…]

Our jobs page has been busy this month, with several new postdoc positions advertised. Here are some of the other highlights: Research: – Christoph and his colleagues wrote about their recent Development paper, where they inhibited the Rho-kinase ROCK in the rabbit embryo, discussing the implications of their work in our understanding of the evolution[…]

Happy new year everyone! The last year saw the usual varied mix of news, research, meeting and discussion posts. We had a look at our stats to find the most popular posts of 2014: Most viewed posts: 1- The secret to getting the postdoc you want– former SDB president Martin Chalfie shares his thoughts on[…]

Our jobs page was busy this month, with jobs advertised in the UK, France, Brazil, Finland and the USA! Here are the other highlights: Research: – Patrick told us the back story to his recent Nature paper that reported a common evolutionary origin for the external genitalia of a snake and the hindlimb of a[…]

Here are some of the highlights for October. Don’t forget to also check our jobs page, were several new positions were advertised this month! Research: – Shusei wrote about his recent paper successfully using intracytoplasmic sperm injection to generate live quails, and what this work teaches us about bird development. – Misato combined atomic force microscopy[…]

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